The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-01

Lieutenant Colonel SuGekim.
A dispatch from Rome to the London
Chronicle says: Cardinal Taschereau
has succeeded in taking the matter of
the knights OF Labor before the Holy
Office. 1t is probable that the decision
will ratify the condemnation of the
order in Canada and forbid any extern
sion in the United States.
The flood at Bismarck, Oak, is the
worst ever known there. The ice
gorge at Sibley island is six miles long
and thirty feet high. The current in
the river channel flows at the rate of
ten miles an hour. Northern Pacific
trains to the westward are blocked,
and stages cannot reach Fort Yates.
The general officials of the North
western road have gone to BarabOo.
Wisconsin, to investigate charges of
tyrannous acts by superintendent
Swineford and his assistant and chief
telegrapher. An engineer is said to
have recently forced the superintend-
ent to retract ISLANDERS uttered against
him.
An engine and tender on the Mari
eta and Northern road broke through
a trestle near Vincent Station, Ohio,
killing the engineer and fireman and
scalding the conductor and brakeman.
Fifteen persons were injured by an
accident at Park Station, New York,
on the Elmira, Cortland & Northern
road.
Three more students have been
seized in st. Petersburg with bombs in
their possession. and eighty-two arrests
were made in the Charkoff University.
The car has authOrizedthe statement
that his aversion to war is as great as
ever, and that he deplores the neces-
sity OF constant precautions for his
safety.
The latest rumOr in regard to the
Baltimore and Ohio road is that de-
posit Of 100000 toward its purchase
has been made by syndicate con-
road. Alfred Sully admits that the
Richmond Terminal company held an
option for the transfer of control, but
decided not to exercise it.
The faculty of Pardue Indiana)
University have made the startling
discovery that number of the stu
dents are addicted to gambling, and
have aroom in the dormitory fitted up
with poker and faro attachments. All
hands were called, but it being the
first otfense the offenders escaped with
Il severe reprimand.
Berlin was on Tuesday decorated
with flags and flowers in honor of the
Emperor's ninetieth birthday, and at
noon royal salute of 10l guns was
fired. The students procession past
the imperial palace required several
hundred carriages. Banquets were
given i'll each continental capital by
the German ambassador
The supreme court of Illinois has
reversed the judgment of the appel
late court in the matter Of the last
will of Wilbur f. Storey, and re-
with directions to set aside the order
probating the alleged will and sustain
the motion of Mary +. Farrand to
dismiss her appeal at her costs.
Arrangements have been completed
for a successful unwilling of the Statue
of James A. Garfield by the society Of
the Army of the Cumberland on May
II next i'll Washington. Workmen
are now preparing the foundation for
the statue, which is to be erected in
the first circle at the junction of Ma
ryland avenue and First street.
The special committee of the Ne
braska assembly appointed to investi-
gate the charges preferred by Edward |
Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee,
against several members of that body, |
has reported that the charges were |
unfounded. The report was sustained |
and resolutions were adopted censur-
ing ROsewater and excluding him from |
the privileges of the floor during the |
remainder of the session.
A New York dispatch Tuesday saws
Mr.. Ira Shafer, counsel for ex-Alder-
man Cleary, now on trial for boodler-
ism, threatens to kill Pulitzer on sight. |
He said: 1.-THE first time L meet Mr.. |
Pulitzer after this trial is over shall |
kill him. Ishan't do it without giving
fair warning, but shall kill him, sure. |
l don't know whether Mr.. Pulitzer
fights or not, but / do; and he will |
have 10 look out for himself if we ever
meet face to face. 1 feel as though he
has been conducting shameful cru
SADIE against me personally, and will
kill him for it."
In Buffalo, early Friday morning,
flames broke out in the Richmond
hotel. containing IT'S persons. Not less
than twelve lives were lost, and about
forty persons were injured by flames
or by leaping from windows. About
$3.50 in the morning Night Clerk AL
port was sitting in the office, when his
attention was attracted by a sudden
CLEAN of light thrown on the floor in
front of the desk. Turning round he
discovered blaze in the cloak room,
which was located under the main
stairway. He was about to rush for
ward and endeavor to put out the
flames, but instead darted to the fire
alarms, one of which com municated
with each of the four floors. He rang
long and repeated peals, and then
started to see if the progress of the
flames could be stayed, but when he
reached the door of the cloak-room he
found that the fire had reached the
elevator shaft, up which it shot in a
moment. In less than five minutes
the blaze, sucked up the shaft by the
strong draft, had reached the roof, and
the entire interior of the hotel was
full of smoke. BY this time, too,
nearly all the guests had been awak-
ened, and terrOr-stricken and blinded
by smoke were rushing about the
various halls and corridors looking for
means of escape. from the burning
building. The alarm turned on by
the night clerk had also called out the
fire department., and by the time the
engines had arrived men and women